Comments on: Five alternatives: Seeking group wisdom, advicehttp://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/five-alternatives-seeking-group-wisdom-advice/
The library voice of the radical middle.Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:32:43 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: walthttp://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/five-alternatives-seeking-group-wisdom-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-36041
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:19:02 +0000http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1093#comment-36041Sure. It has to do with Dave Pattern’s “HotStuff 2.0” and the “Hot or Not” list.

I’d noticed that some blogs are extremely volatile, my own included. Just for fun, I’ve been tracking it (but only once a day, and it seems to change more often than that). Since it’s based on how words in a blog’s most recent three posts compare to distinctive words being used a lot across liblogs in general…well, I wondered how easily it could be gamed. The words in that postscript seem likely to be used a lot. Or not.

All I know right now is that this morning I was at #506 (freezing) (after being #40 yesterday when I checked it)…and just now, I’m at #11 (hot). Of course, by the time I actually record it tomorrow noonish, I might be back to #500… Just a bit of fun.